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Hate or fear… the result is the same. When you see a math book, you
scream and jump onto the nearest chair. Wait…
That’s me with spiders. How
about this? You get sick to your stomach and
develop a nervous twitch in
your left eye while little beads of sweat
sprout on your upper lip. (By the way,
that happens to me with spiders too. I have
issues.)
I’ve often wondered if one of those “desensitization therapies” that
psychologists use for things like spider
phobias would work with math…
The therapy would start with the student being in the same room with a
securely caged math book… Very slowly, the
student is moved closer and
closer to the cage. After a few days of this,
the lid is taken off the cage and the
student is able to see that the math book is
not going to leap out and attack
her neck (like that killer rabbit in the Monty
Python movie.) The student is then
instructed to give the math book a name… like
Fido or Herman. This
personalizes the math book and makes it seem
friendlier.
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